The Delta independent., 1887-02-15
TELEGRAPH BREVITIES.

The gshoremen's strike in New
yn.k is at an end.
The President has vetoed the Depen-
dent Soldiers Pension bill.
Springfield, Illinois, was visited by
an earthquake few days ago.
| A cyclone in Central Ohio damaged
property to the extent of $780,
| By railroad accident in Vermont
last week nearly fifty lives were lost
| A man is ON exhibition in London
who is eigh feet and nine inches high.
There are said to be more million
aires in the City of Mexico than in Chi
cago.
The bodies of forty-six persons have
| been taken from the late railroad wreck in
Vermont.
Lyons and Three Rivers, Michigan,
are suffering from floods caused by immense
| the gorges.
The President has signed the Indian
Land Severalty bill and Backbone" Land
grant-forfeiture bill.
The Dennison Paper Company, of
Merchants Falls, Oregon, has suspended
with liabilities of $4,000.
The revival in progress in DIR. Tai
mage's church at Brooklyn has thus far re-
suited In two thousand conversions.
Archdeacon Farrar is reported to
have said that Sin India the English have
| made one hundred drunkards for one Chris
tian."
O'Neil. another of New York's
Doodle aldermen, has been sentenced to
four and half years imprisonment and to
pay fine of 5000.
1t is stated that the Abyssinians lost
| 5000 men in the battles in which the Italian
forces were defeated near Massowah, in
| Soudan, on January % and %.
The meetings of the strikers in New
York which were called for Saturday night
were thinly attended. The weather was
| cold and II seemed to chill their enthus-
iasm.
The stationary engineers and brew
cry employees OF New York City, who were
No. 80 OF the Knights OF Labor, positively
| refused.
Ii is reported that bloody fight took
place between n Sherff's posse and band
/ of Navajo Indians in New Mexico few
days ago, in which two Indians and three
white men were killed.
The President is reported to have
said that the worry and trouble incurred
from the pressure Of applicants for the po-
sition OF Railroad Commissioner under the
ne W law WAS making life burden 10 him
The British steamer Wells City. while
at anchor in the Hudson river, had hole
stove In her side by floating ice. She filled
up rapidly and sank. She was valued at
si50,ooo and her cargo at tl4o.Ooo. She will
be raised.
The Commissioner of Pensions has
started acquisitions for sis,.s0,oDO with
which 10 make payment OF pensions due
March next This will be the larges, pay
men, for the current pensions made In any
one month in the history OF the Govern
ment
At a recent state dinner at the White
House Mrs. Cleveland set decided ex-
ample in favor of temperance by abstaining
entirely from liquors. While all other
plates had seven wine-glasses at them, hers
had but two-one for water and one for
Apollinaris.
A dcplorablc state of affairs exists in
Montana. For the past ten days the ,her-
mometer has ranged from 10 to co degrees
below zero and the cattle have frozen by
the thousand. A great many lives have
also been lost and several stage coaches
filled with passengers are missing.
Three deaths have resulted in the fam
braska, from eating poisoned prunes. How
the deadly drug got in the fruit is not yet
known. The mother, one child and father
in-aw have died since Tuesday, while two
children and the father are in dangerous
condition.
A bill has passed the Texas Senate
and II will probably pass the House, pro-
hibiting the dealing in futures, and fixing
q fine OF not less than q 900 and not more
than 1900 and imprisonment in the county
jail for six months. Each day on which the
business is conducted is to constitute sep
arate offence.
The United States Court now in scs-
sion In Santa Fe has been engaged for
number of days In trying indictments found
nj the last term of said court to the number
OF over 200, for alleged land frauds charged
to have been committed by citizens of New
Mexico. Two cases have been tried, and In
both cases vepiict of not guilty was rem
dered by the petit jury.
A dispatch from Montreal dated the
iith, says: One of the great events of the
carnival, the grand parade of allegorical
and spectacular ears, took place yesterday.
The parade passed through snowshoers'
nrch which was occupied by over $50 snow
shoers In their many-colored uniforms, the
beauty of the structure being greatly in
creased thereby. Lord and Lady Lands
downe, escorted by cavalry, were in the
procession.
In this weeks issue Of the Farmer's
Review the following summary of the
crops will appear: The wheat fields in
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and Kan.
sas at the close Of last week were generally
bare Of snow, while those Of Michigan and